You may remember that Dr. Jemsek's next hearing before the board is scheduled for Thursday, July 20 at 11:00am. On this date, the board will determine the conditions of Dr. Jemsek's ``stay.''
Originally, this was to be a private meeting between Dr. Jemsek, his attorney, a few members of the Medical Board, and their attorney. That has now changed and Dr. Jemsek will again appear before the full board.
We have had indications that the Board's attorney wishes to take away Dr. Jemsek's ability to treat chronic Lyme with IV antibiotic therapy. We do not know if the attorney's view is shared by the Board.
Dr. Jemsek will plead his case as to why he should remain able to treat in whatever way is deemed necessary.
Several have asked if they can attend the hearing: the answer is ``yes.'' Once again, the hearing is open to the public.
If you live in and around the Raleigh area, we would welcome your presence!
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I just don't know what to say any more but when will the persections end?
My prayers are with Dr.J .
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So, the prosecuting attorney knows all about misdiagnosed entrenched borreliosis complexes now, and how to treat it? Guess he is in the wrong line of work.
Who is paying this attorney? The medical board? If so, we know their position.
And who will be responsible, morally, ethically, finacially, for the incapacitation of these patients when IV's are removed when a patient cannot tolerate orals?
This is sick sick sick.
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Patients of this doctor should be kicking up a political fuss to prevent this from happening. Left to their own devices, the medical board will stop any treatment that extends beyond IDSA guidelines. If you think it means that you will just have to go farther away for treatment, guess again. It is bad everywhere. Now is the time to fight this. Has everyone visited, called, written to their state legislators?
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quote:Originally posted by northstar: [Q So, the prosecuting attorney knows all about misdiagnosed entrenched borreliosis complexes now, and how to treat it? Guess he is in the wrong line of work.
Who is paying this attorney? The medical board? If so, we know their position.
And who will be responsible, morally, ethically, finacially, for the incapacitation of these patients when IV's are removed when a patient cannot tolerate orals?
This is sick sick sick.
Northstar [/QB]
Exactly right. Well said, Northstar!
Lou...an excellent idea for us all. Wish someone with a brain would write a sample letter for us!
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A letter has already been written for us. Lyme Disease two standards of Care.
We CHOOSE to have IV antibiotics.
This is supposed to be a free country.
Lyme Disease: Two Standards of Care
By Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA Executive Director, CALDA (California Lyme Disease Association) Updated February, 2005
The central difficulties in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease stem from the lack of sufficiently sensitive and reliable biological markers of the disease. Without such markers, it is difficult to determine who has the disease, the effectiveness of a course of treatment, and the end point of treatment. The ideal antibiotics, route of administration, and duration of treatment for persistent Lyme disease are not established. No single antibiotic or combination of antibiotics appears to be capable of completely eradicating the infection, and treatment failures or relapses are reported with all current regimens, although they are less common with early aggressive treatment.[1-3]
Opinion within the medical community is deeply divided regarding the best approach for treating Lyme disease, particularly persistent Lyme disease that is not cured by short-term protocols. This split has resulted in two standards of care. Both viewpoints are reflected in peer-reviewed, evidence-based guidelines. Some physicians treat patients for 30 days only and assume that remaining symptoms reflect a self-perpetuating autoimmune response.[4] Other physicians assume that the persistent symptoms reflect on-going infection and gauge the duration of treatment by the patient's individual clinical response. These physicians believe that there is insufficient evidence at this point to adopt standardized treatment protocols.[5]
While each viewpoint has a strong underlying hypothesis, the scientific evidence supporting either viewpoint is equivocal. Outcomes research is limited and conflicting. The NIAID has only funded three double-blind, placebo-controlled treatment outcome studies for long-term treatment of persistent Lyme disease. The findings of two studies (Klempner and Krupp) are contradictory, with one indicating that continued treatment is beneficial for treating fatigue and the other indicating that it is not.[6-8] The third NIAID-funded study has recently been completed and preliminary results support continued antibiotic treatment for patients with persistent Lyme disease.[9] The findings of five non-controlled studies support continued treatment.[1, 10-13] The existence of limited or conflicting controlled studies is not uncommon in the practice of medicine. Where this is the case, the unique clinical course of the patient, of necessity, bears the laboring oar in treatment decisions.
Insurance companies have placed the full weight of their economic clout behind the less expensive short-term treatment protocols. More expensive longer-term treatment options are discredited as "experimental" or "not evidence-based." The point, of course, is that the science underlying both the short-term and the longer-term treatment options is equally uncertain (like prostate cancer). The appropriate response to equivocal research findings in healthcare outcomes is to fund more research. It is estimated that only 20% of medicine practiced today is rooted in double-blind studies.[14] The bulk of medicine today is practiced in the grey zone. Evidence-based medicine requires only that medicine be practiced in accordance with the evidence that currently exists, not that treatment be withheld pending research.
Insurance companies have adopted guidelines reflecting short-term treatment approaches. However, the legal standard of care for treating a condition is determined by the consensus of physicians who actually treat patients, not by treatment guidelines.[15] Moreover, more than one standard of care may exist. A number of surveys have found a fairly even split among treating physicians. One survey found that 57% of responding physicians treat persistent Lyme disease for three months or more.[16] Fallon notes that for over 3400 patients screened for the Columbia University study of persistent Lyme disease, the mean duration of IV treatment was 2.3 months and the mean duration of oral antibiotic therapy was 7.5 months.[6] In another survey, ``50% of the responders considered using antibiotics for a time greater than one year in a symptomatic seropositive Lyme disease patient. Almost that same number would extend therapy to 18 months if needed.''[17] For treating early Lyme disease, there are conflicting surveys. Most physicians responding to one survey specified short-term treatment[18], while 43% of those responding to another survey would treat erythema migrans-positive Lyme disease for three months or more.[16] All jurisdictions that have considered the matter have found two standards of care in the treatment of Lyme disease.[19]
When more than one standard of care exists, the critical question becomes who decides the appropriate course of treatment for the patient. Under the medical ethical principle of autonomy, the treatment decision belongs to the patient. Hence, the American Medical Association requires that the physician disclose and discuss with the patient not only the risks and benefits of the proposed treatment, but also the risks and benefits of available alternative treatments (regardless of their cost or the extent to which the treatment options are covered by health insurance).[20] For example, patients with prostate cancer (where significant uncertainty exists regarding long-term treatment outcomes) must elect between watchful waiting, radiation and surgery. The legal doctrine of informed consent also requires that patients be advised of material treatment options. Treatment choices involve trade-offs between the risks and benefits of treatment options that only patients-who know the kinds of risks they are willing to run and the types of quality of life outcomes that matter to them-are uniquely suited to make.
Sound health care policy follows suit, with healthcare costs generally witnessing a reduction when the patient's preference is supported. Patient preference exists whenever there is more than one acceptable treatment approach. When inefficiencies in the Medicare system were analyzed by looking at small area variations in medical practice, most variation in preference-sensitive care was found to reflect physician opinion. In patient preference situations, patient and provider values are often in conflict and public healthcare researchers recommend reducing the medical practice variations in these situations by ``reduc[ing] scientific uncertainty through outcomes research... and establish[ing] shared decision-making for preference-based treatments.''[21]
Respect for the basic autonomy of the patient is a fundamental principle of medical ethics. Without adequate information about treatment options, their probable outcomes, and the risks and benefits associated with each, patients cannot act autonomously. Today, however, many patients are either denied treatment by their HMO physicians who follow actuarial treatment protocols generated to keep treatment costs down, or they must find an independent physician to treat them, with the all but forgone conclusion that coverage for this treatment will be denied by their insurer based on cherry-picked (economically favorable) guidelines. Moreover, HMO physicians generally do not advise their patients that treatment alternatives exist.
Scientific uncertainty about Lyme disease has resulted in more than one treatment approach (like prostate cancer). We agree with the AMA, ACP and other professional medical organizations interested in promoting informed patient consent and want to make sure that:
Physicians, insurers, patients and governmental agencies are educated that two treatment approaches exist; Physicians give patients sufficient information about treatment options to enable patients to make a meaningfully informed choice and respect the autonomy of that choice; Insurance reimbursement be provided for treatment rendered in accordance with either standard of care; and Government agencies provide unbiased information and remain neutral regarding both standards of care and treatment approaches.
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quote:Originally posted by northstar:
Who is paying this attorney? The medical board? If so, we know their position.
Northstar
It is my understanding that he is the medical board attorney on staff. So he is basically paid with taxpayer $$$.
Quote from Joyce: We have had indications that the Board's attorney wishes to take away Dr. Jemsek's ability to treat chronic Lyme with IV antibiotic therapy. We do not know if the attorney's view is shared by the Board.
Since the attorney is an insider himself, it would stand to reason that the board is heading in this direction. You cannot tell me he is just proclaiming things like that without support from the board.
This could be bad, very bad.
I will try to go if I can. And will report back to the group. Will also try to get more of an inside opinion from some good contacts.
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What's the agenda? We've already been cut off by BC/BS. Are we going to Raleigh as a silent show of support this time or are we going with signs and make some noise? Maybe those of us who wrote letters of support for Dr. J should bring copies along to hand out to the media this time.
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Can there be a national call to action in calling the NC governor?
If so, I suggest and emergency moving thread in Medical (sometimes the sticky's get ignored and this is a matter of two days here)
I'm not on the "front lines" in NC -
But was thinking if you decide the governor is the man to call - you might want to open it up to patients from all states... put it in the title and we'll help push a calling campaign for Doc J.
Let us know.
We all must stand behind EVERY LLMD, no matter where they are located -- northeast, west, southeast, mid-west - we know all their names, and they all mean as much as our own doctors to all of us.
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So is this the final word? We all need to call or fax the Governor of NC?
If this is so, I feel that someone who knows for sure should post this in Activism and that everyone should take action. Two days isn't much time to get this done
Please, someone who has knowledge on this subject, let us know what we can do NOW!
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For anyone using the "example letter" to send still to their LOCAL CONGRESS SENATORS/REPS, plesae break those long paragraphs into shorter ones for readability.
I totally agree with calling/axing, I mean FAXING NC Gov NOW!
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Each member of my family will reply with a fax today. There are four of us, two with Lyme, and this disease has had an impact on each of us.
My daughter, thankfully was able to have agressive therapy, including IV, within a couple of months of her tick bite. She's not completely well yet, but she is a lot better than she was and she continues to improve under ILADS standard of care.
My husband is more typical, 14 years going from one specialist to another with nothing better than a vague diagnosis of fibromyalgia and being told to live with it.
He was diagnosed clinically in November and is now on IV therapy. For the first time in 14 years he is experiencing "glimmers" of what life was like before this disease, periods of non-foggy thinking and a relief in pain. He finally has hope he will get his old life back.
We each have a story to tell and I urge everyone, no matter what state you live in, to fax or email Gov. Easley today with yours.
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It seems to me that LLMD's are droping like flies here lately. The general public views those of us with so called chronic lyme, as hypochondriacs. If I was not ill and read some of the post here I would feel the same way. Some of the post here are way out there and it just dont seem to matter what you have to those here it is lyme. We are talking MS, ALS, CFIDS, FM, and a host of other diseases. Lets say all these diseases are lyme, I dont see anyone trying to prove the theory true. It is all theory, nothing has been proven. If it were things would be differant.
Due to bad testing, possibly some Dr's have found a loophole in the system, a way to make very good money.
So we have two things that the general public hates, hypochondriacs and scam artist. No, this is not the way I feel about it but it is the way everyone who is not sick will feel. People hate scamers, even scamers. Our country, hell the world is full of them. And the sick, we all know how the world changed when we became sick. My loving wife was no longer loving, my family calls me 75% less and all my friends are gone, my so called friends dont even know if I am alive. Not to mention my country fighting 3 years with me on my disability. People hate the sick!
So what do you expect? Unless the lyme world can prove that thie theory is correct, can get a reliable test and can find a treatment that works, we will continue to lose. I am sure someone here will say "the treatment is working". If it takes more than a month of antibiotics then it is not working! I am not saying it is not lyme, just saying abx is not working. Antibiotics work quick, very bad infections are cleared withen 9 days. If it is lyme than they need to make a drug that will work. We have drugs that kill viruses, bacteria killing drugs are a 1000 times easier to produce.
At the rate things are going we will have lost all the lyme docs in 10 years! What is really sad is in that time they will have found the cause and cure for cfids. I can tell you cfids is much more complicated than lyme.
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Here's an update to this; I received this from one of my inside contacts ...
I totally understand your concern, but please know that this wasn't an underhanded move on the board's part. The way it transpired is thus: If Dr. Jemsek and his attorney had reached an agreement on a "consent order" with the board's attorney, then it would have been just a meeting with a few members of the board.
Dr. J put forth what he would consider on a consent order last week. The board's attorney got it and did not agree with it. Hence, no agreement could be reached...which leads to a full board hearing.
In my opinion, another silent showing would best fit the circumstances. We believe that the board was impressed with the showing last month and it will be another positive statement if a group can come again for round #2.
We are truly hopeful that the board will see fit to NOT curtail Dr. Jemsek's practice in any significant way.
I hope that helps -- thank you!
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Seems to me that it's the attorney out for blood. He was extremely aggressive during the hearing and I expect he will be the same this time around.
Basically, no compromise for him. He wants severe sanctions for Dr. J. It will be up to the board to decide, which means we need to again show support.
This may be as important or even more inportant than the first hearing. Dr. J has his license, but if severe restrictions are placed on him, he will no longer be able to treat chronic Lyme and coinfections as he sees fit.
And the tragedy here is that there are no other docs anywhere near here who could assume all these patients.
I plan to be there and will report back to the group on Thurs eve.
In the meantime, I do indeed think it is important to jam Gov. Easley's fax machine with faxes. The buck stops there and they will have to respond to this.
What I do not know is if Dr. J can appeal whatever they do. I would doubt it, but not sure.
Thank you everyone from everywhere for your support of this LLMD.
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Connie, Would it be helpful to contact the Med Board? Or would this do more harm?
If helpful, how/who would we contact? Thank you, N.
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Also, How can one find if this lawyer has any dubious ties to BC/BS or other insurers?
N.
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If the worst happens and NC lymies are shut out of further treatment, they had better take to the streets with protests, camp out in the gov's office, picket the medical board longterm. This is political, and the way to counter it is kick up a fuss.
I cannot say that Connie isn't right about her take on the next meeting, and how to behave, but you all had better have your protest signs in the car and a list of people who can picket this office afterwards when the worst happens. And a group organizing visits/calls/faxes to state officials and legislators now and later. If you don't pull out all the stops, they are going to do you in. Fight back!
In a recent protest at the CDC in Atlanta, parents of autistic kids called for prison terms for the health officials who have connived at preventing the cause of this epidemic from being identified. These parents had no problem picturing vaccine syringes on their protest material. There are now something like one in a hundred kids affected by autism. This is a plague of huge proportions. Meanwhile, the officials lie and pretend to be studying the problem and say vaccines are absolutely not to blame. OK, so what is? Are they going to tell us it was genetics or autoimmunity????? Outrageous.
I wish we were organized enough to have participated in Atlanta along with the autism group. The CFIDS and Gulf War people should have been there too. If enough of the groups representing failed official health policies showed up in a joint effort, it would be a clear message and a lot more likely to be noticed. The problem is failed official responses to diseases. Lyme is one of those diseases, but the problem is bigger.
These are the kind of people we are dealing with. The state medical boards are just another set of medical bureaucrats, some of whom are criminally incompetent.
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quote:Originally posted by lou:
I cannot say that Connie isn't right about her take on the next meeting, and how to behave, but you all had better have your protest signs in the car and a list of people who can picket this office afterwards when the worst happens. And a group organizing visits/calls/faxes to state officials and legislators now and later. If you don't pull out all the stops, they are going to do you in. Fight back!
Lou, note that the info in my post was copied from an email I received from an insider. These "silent" instructions are from people working with Dr. J. I originally wrote her to find out if we could raise a stink, carry signs, whatever, and this post is what I got back from her.
If I had it my way, I would be working on my signs right now.
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Sure, I think I can make up a dummy letter thats SHORT, though I'm well known for Way too long as well.
I wrote one for the govenor, but that was personal and not a mass appeal kinda letter.
However, if we sent a dummy letter 100 times to the same guy, then he may think that its just the same letter from someone changing the names, I don't know.
Any other imput on the most effective way for a dummy letter. one letter many signitures, or one dummy letter format, many different letters.
We need to have this done at the lastest by tomorrow. Please someone chime in
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Thanks Lymescience,
Do you think letters via fax to the attorney will do some good?
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I just wanted to let you know that I taked to one of Dr J's nursed yesterday and I asked about the upcoming hearing on the 20th. She did mention to me that yes, the board can make him stop giving IV antibiotics to his patients but that would only be for a year. Still I think that this is another lyme doc. witch hunt!
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Well, enough is enough. so this stupid *** of an attorney for what, some kind of legal service for prisoners is going to tell one of the preeminent world authorities on Lyme disease how to practice medicine? I for one would like to get a complete transcript or summrary of the meeting tomorrow as well as a summary of what this irresponsible idiot did at the earlier hearing.
I fully intend to file a complaint against him with the North Carolina bar and explain exactly the kind of damage that he has done and is doing and precisely how this is affecting and is actually going to cost people their lives.
The man is a babbling fool who outght to be locked up. Along with that idiot medical board. As for the man whose wife died under shall we say "mysterious" circumstances they are not mysterious to anybody who knows anything about either morphine or the practice or medicine. Suffice it to say that the Charlotte or whatever police authorities were most deleric in their public responsiblities.
I am sick and tired, to the point of being sick to vomit with these idiotic paltroons who keep saying we must be quiet and be nice. I for one have had enough. Just where has that gotten us? Well look around and see. the penalties for cowardice and this feeble faintheartedness are out there for all to see who are not deaf, dumb, blind and too scared or too lazy to stand up and be counted. Thomas Parkman
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You go get them Thomas! You are highly articluate and just the person for this
one question.....
How does one go about filing a claim against the North carolina bar? I would also like to do this.
That lawyers and medical committees are going to drive our treatment for lyme just is wrong wrong wrong
This whole thing makes me want to puke too
and there seems not enough words anymore to express or contain my outrage & greif
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Do you mean to say everyone here with strong beliefs has been able to physically show up at each LLMD's hearing?
Were you in CT for the Jones hearings?
I would assume most of us understand that now is a time to pull togther and contribute whatever we are able to give in time amd effort to defend ALL our doctors.
Mo
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AP were you at the Jemsek Hearing last month?
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Now is not the time to argue over this or that detail or sin of ommission or commission. For the record I had written a strong letter of support of Dr. Jemsek. At that point in time I was too sick to make the trip by car. I could not drive the hours long trip to Raleigh.
This comedy is playing out exactly as I predicted it would. The real killer will be the hearing today. So what to do. No matter what the outcome, good, bad or indifferent I intend to file a complaint with the North Carolina Bar against Marcus Jamison for professional malpractice. You will see the arguments when I file the complaint. The board is caught on the horns of its own dilema. Those who are interested in joining me in that complaint may do so by contacting me.
Further, should it come to it,I am going to give serious, research, study and consideration to appropriate legal action against those parties which have conspired to deprive me of my legal rights to appropraite medical care for the treatment of a disabling and ptotentially fatal disease and have compelled a doctor to prescribe what both he and I know is a fraudulent medical protocol and treatment.
Now is the time to take off the lace gloves and get some brass knuckles and start using them. Or else you may all be dead soon enough, along with a lot of other people. Cheers. Thomas Parkman
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Bravo Thomas!
Keep me in mind with your complaint against the NCB /Marcus Jamison. I sent you my e-mail via a pm.
Take care
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Lyme disease doctor allowed to practice with restrictions
ESTES THOMPSON Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C - A Charlotte doctor accused of misdiagnosing Lyme disease patients can practice medicine, but only with restrictions, the state Medical Board decided Thursday.
Dr. Joseph Jemsek said he would study the restrictions - especially one that allows him to only prescribe a course of treatment lasting longer than two months if he is conducting research - "and see what we can do in the best interests of our patients."
Last month, the board suspended Jemsek's license for a year, but allowed him to practice on a probationary basis. The meeting Thursday was to determine the conditions on his license.
Announced without comment by board president Dr. Robert Moffatt, the restrictions require Jemsek to have an informed consent statement from his patients. He also must send patients for a second opinion if a treatment wasn't supported by existing medical protocols.
Patients who develop adverse symptoms must be treated immediately, the board said.
Jemsek said he was already doing research at his clinic and had an informed consent policy and that in general "the restrictions are things we can live with."
Experts told the board last month that the standard treatment for Lyme disease is 28 days of oral antibiotics. Patients testified that Jemsek gave them oral and intravenous antibiotics for weeks. One woman died after receiving treatment.
Several patients who support Jemsek wore green armbands and sat behind him at the board meeting. Former patients, including some who complained to the board about severe side effects of the treatments, sat on the other side of the audience.
One of Jemsek's former patients, Phillip Moore of Concord, said after the meeting that he was satisfied with the board's action.
"He will be held accountable for every patient who walks through his door," said Moore, who said Jemsek treated for Lyme disease although later independent testing showed he didn't have it.
Moore said Jemsek wanted to test his wife on the grounds that Lyme disease was spread by sexual contact. At one point, Moore said he was given an anti-psychotic drug for "Lyme rage."
Another patient said Jemsek gave her antibiotics for nine months and she became ill.
"He told me I gave both my children Lyme disease," Dawn Brent said. "I found out later I didn't have it."
Before the board voted, Jemsek told the board that Lyme disease research trails that in other fields and that approved standards are inadequate. Patients who use the Internet to get information are frustrated that doctors don't have the same data.
He said doctors don't have time to help patients filter the information because they are caught up in medical bureaucracy.
"We all know the information is going full speed," Jemsek said. "Google this, Google there. Some of our patients are as smart as we are, smarter than we are."
Supporters have said Jemsek was the only doctor who could help them after numerous trips to other clinics.
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